fwo_889007 - SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - ALFONSO XII 1 Peseta 1883 Madrid
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Type : 1 Peseta
Date: 1883
Mint name / Town : Madrid
Quantity minted : 8445839
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 835 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,96 g.
Edge : cannelée
Obverse
Obverse legend : ALFONSO XII POR - LA G. DE DIOS / * 1883 *.
Obverse description : portrait à gauche du roi Alphonse XII.
Reverse
Reverse legend : REY CONSTL. DE ESPAÑA / M.S. 1 PESETA .M..
Reverse description : écu couronné écartelé de Castille, de Léon, d'Aragon, de Navarre, enté en pointe de Grenade ; sur-le-tout de Bourbon-Anjou, entre les colonnes d’Hercule.
Historical background
SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - ALFONSO XII
(29/12/1874-25/12/1885)
Alphonse XII (28/11/1857-25/12/1885) is the son of Isabella II who abdicated in her favor in 1868. After the eviction of Amédée de Savoie, king from 1871 to 1873, the republic is proclaimed on February 11, 1873 but Alphonse XII was restored to the Spanish throne on December 29, 1874. He married Maria Mercedes de Bourbon (1860-1878) then in 1879 Marie-Christine of Austria (1858-1929) who gave him a posthumous son , the future Alfonso XIII.
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